. . . I have registered in the passed first year at the same village full-grown sheep 15, lambs 10, goats 3; the total from the previous year to the current [l. 5] year: full-grown sheep 25, goats 3, of which the loss in accordance with register and count was for the current year full-grown sheep 10. This leaves full-grown sheep 15, goats 3 [[which I have registered]], [l. 10] and following the birth in the first year of 10 lambs, the total is [[25]], which totals for the second year at the same village, 25 sheep. Of these in the same first year in the same village there was a loss of 10 new born lambs. The sheep will remain at the same village and in the grazing area of the shepherd Ammonios. And I swear by the fate of [l. 15] Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus not to have lied. The 2nd year of Emperor Caesar [l. 20] Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus, I swear by his fate not to have lied. The 2nd year of Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius [l. 25] Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus, 5th of Mecheir. Aurelius Ammonius Ptolatos through me . . . I have given and sworn the oath as appropriate.
P.Princ. II 28 P. J. Sijpesteijn, "Corrections on Some Princeton Papyri," ZPE 68 (1987): 143-148; BL IX, 218
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